Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dependence upon God for his material wellbeing. The spotlight focused on a bowl of white flowers is a symbol of the light of God by which the peace of the world will come. For some, the break in front of the entrance is a defense against evil spirits, who travel in straight lines and cannot, therefore, go around the corner to enter this room. The ten lights in the ceiling are symbolic of the Ten Commandments representing God's moral...
...report to the State Department, published last week. "It is hardly credible," wrote McCloy, "that [the Germans] would . . . again embrace a pseudo-philosophy which disgraced and degraded their fatherland ... But they are, on the whole, not so keenly aware of the danger as those who suffered directly from Nazi evil. They are confused by charges which associate Nazi crimes with traditional German nationalism; they are tempted to justify the war and to blame the Allies for failing to understand that they were really fighting to defend the West . . . They are, in short, a much-perplexed people, trying to find their...
...about it. Back in 446 B.C., they wrote proletarian heroes were denouncing private property and the democratic state; and by 476 A.D. a splendid fellow named Masdak was proclaiming to his native Persia that "private property is the root of hatred and strife between men . . . the cause of all evil and bad. Communism is applied religion ..." In 1492, of course, Columbus discovered America, but in the Peters book the founding of the Siberian town of Sibir rated as much space...
Wrote the cardinal: "Naziism, an arrogant apostasy from Jesus Christ, distinguished itself for its errors in the cult of the dead . . . Now Divine Providence has eliminated the roots of evil with the annihilation of Naziism, yet some countries-including our own-still preserve practices of Nazi origin, such as the cult of the dead, without discrimination of religious belief, or ... the cult of the Cross of the Fallen, before which cold political homage is rendered . . . The cause has gone, but we go on breathing a pagan, Nazi atmosphere...
...Compromise. Perhaps the most difficult part of life in a Communist country is to keep peace with oneself. "Nearly every day," said the priest, "a man is forced to compromise with evil and disturb the peace of mind that is within him. By frequently making compromises, he becomes morally insensible...